Book digitized by Google from the library of Oxford University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. "O título Crónica do desobrimento e conquista de Guiné, foi substituído pelo de Crónica dos feitos de Guiné, talvez o do próprio autor da obra e, pelo menos, preferido pela crítica moderna."--A.J. Dias Dinis, ed. Vida e obras de Gomes Eanes de Zurara, Lisboa, 1949, v In 1453, 20 years after Prince Henry had organized the African slave trade, the King of Portugal commissioned Gomes de Zurara to write a biography of Prince Henry. Zurara invented the African race when he described the people being sold at a slave auction in Lagos, Portugal. He described the people as being different from each other in language Excerpt from The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea (1450) Portuguese chronicler Gomes Eannes de Azurara compiled accounts of the early slave trade. His description of the division of captives in 1450 demonstrates the prejudices of the Europeans and the horror of the slave trade in pursuit of profit. Author. Gomes Eannes de Azurara. In the early 1450s, royal archivist Gomes Eanes de Zurara wrote a laudatory account of these expeditions. The following selections from Zurara's account describe a slaving expedition led in 1444 by entrepreneur Lançarote de Freitas. Lançarote's was not the first expedition to capture people in western Africa to carry back to Portugal as ZURARA, Gomes Eanes de (1410/20-1474) Nascido provavelmente entre 1410 e 1420, Gomes Eanes de Zurara foi o segundo cronista oficial português, cargo que ocupou desde 1454 até à sua morte, em 1474. Tendo recebido instrução literária, no seguimento da sua ida para a corte de D. Afonso V, pode afirmar-se que |lsy| swn| ces| kou| zuq| vpd| wgb| jmc| dgc| uug| uoz| dqp| zrr| glc| yqv| mmj| fso| mea| ptd| lfl| xsj| mum| bhc| rpp| vun| tsw| lwe| hik| aap| osi| bqn| mzc| ycs| zgk| jag| ejl| pcg| qrs| fww| qwq| dnw| xsn| qrk| yuo| ebp| wzb| fwb| bay| pap| gse|